Hammock



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B. GEMMELL.

HAMMOUK.

No. 892,603. Patented Nov. 13, 1888.

llnrrnn STATES PATENT FFICE.

ROBERT GEMMELL, OF BROOKLINE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND GEORGE FROST, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,603, dated November 13, 1888.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT GEMMELL, now of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hammocks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to woven hammocks; and its object is to improve the construction of the supporting-loops and their mode of attachment to the hammock-body.

Heretofore the supporting-cords of woven hammocks have been formed from the extended ends of the warp-threads, as shown, for example, in United States Letters Patent No. 271,510. This construction is objectionable among other reasons, because the warp-th reads cannot be made of sufficiently strong material to act properly as supportingcords without making the cost of the whole fabric excessively great. It has also been attempted to attach the supporting-cord to the body of a woven hammock by looping the cord into or around the last thread or that forming the extreme end of the hammock-body. This construction also is objectionable in that the end thread, under the weight of the occupant of the hammock, is likely to be pulled or stretched outwardly in loops, thereby puckering or dis torting the end of the hammoekbody injuriousl y.

In my present improvement I form the supportingloops of one or more threads or cords, each thread or cord being interwoven with the warp-threads at a sufficient distance from the end of the hammock-body to leave a proper hem, and each thread or cord being looped or drawn out at intervals, as desired, across the web or body of the hammock.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents in plan a portion of the end of a hammock-body embodying my present invention; Fig. 2, a View in end elevation and section on 00 w of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a side View of Fig. 1, the hem having been turned and united to the body.

In the drawings, A represents a portion of the body of a woven hammock of ordinary construction. At a sufficient distance from its end to leave a good hem -as, for example, that marked aI interweave across the warpthreads a supporting thread or cord, B. In

the drawings, for the sake of simplicity, I have shown one only; but in practice more may be employed, if desired. This cord Bis also, for

the sake of clearness, represented in black to distinguish it from the ordinary filling-threads of the hammock fabric. At suitableintervals as, for example, after every sixth thread of the warp--I loop or draw out the thread B to a convenient length, as shown at b in Fig. 2. In practice I have found four or five inches a desirable length for the loops. These loops when formed serve the ordinary purposes of suspensionloops in ordinary hammocks. The loops may, if desired, be knotted on themselves where they leave the hammock-web, as shown at o in Fig. 3, and thus will be prevented from drawing unequally through the warp-threads. After theloops have been made as described the edge of the hammock may be finished by turning and securing the hem, as shown in Fig. 3. r

I am aware that supportingloops for woven hammocks have been made by carryinga cord at right angles to the plane of the hammockbody and arounda stay-cord, or its equivalent, placed in a fold, bight, or hem at the end of the hammock-body. This construction, however, is objectionable in that it introduces the stay-cord, which is an extra feature involving extra expense. Furthermore, the manufacture of hammocks in this way is quite slow. By my improvement I dispense with the stay-cord, and the operations of weaving the supporting cord or cords across the hammock-body and the looping can be performed with great readiness and cheapness.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, a woven hammock having a central body portion, A, a hem portion, a, at the end of said body portion and adapted to be folded upon and secured to said body portion, and a supportingcord, B, separate and distinct from the weftthreads and not forming one of said weftthreads, the said cord being woven between the warp-threads of the hammock at the junction of the said body and hem portions and being drawn out at intervals to form suspen sion-loops, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 10th day of July, A. D. 1888.

ROBERT GEMMELL;

Witnesses:

J. HENRY TAYLOR, E. B. TOMLINSOM 

